PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘The Annihilation of Fish’: Charles Burnett’s Rediscovered Midlife Romance
The filmmaker’s recently rediscovered 1999 movie is amiably off-kilter, but it sometimes seems tonally unsure.
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‘Jay Kelly’ and ‘Hamnet’ Want You to Cry
For South Sound: New movies from Noah Baumbach and Chloé Zhao, reviewed.
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Parallel Lines
Zeinabu irene Davis’ one and only feature-length movie, 1999’s ‘Compensation,’ has gotten a well-deserved second life this year.
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Afterwords
‘It Was Just an Accident’ and ‘Rebuilding,’ reviewed.
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‘An Autumn’s Tale’ is Perfectly Bittersweet
Mabel Cheung’s 1987 not-quite-romantic comedy celebrates love as a vessel for positive change.
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Short Takes: ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘Nouvelle Vague,’ ‘Wicked: For Good,’ and ‘Train Dreams’
For 425: New movies from Joachim Trier, Richard Linklater, Jon M. Chu, and Clint Bentley, reviewed.
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‘Autumn Leaves’: Joan Crawford at the Peak of Her Powers
The 1956 melodrama was also something of a last hurrah for the star.
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‘Peter Hujar’s Day’’s Deceptive Simplicity
Ira Sachs’ low-key, interview transcript-based two-hander is understatedly revealing.
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‘Charisma’ is Not Your Typical Eco-Thriller
But its otherworldly, cryptic chilliness is typical Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
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Do the Right Thing
Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker trilogy-commencing ‘Where is the Friend’s House?’ empathetically sees the world through a particularly well-meaning child’s eyes.
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The Lonely Souls of ‘Die My Love’ and ‘Frankenstein’
For South Sound: New movies from Lynne Ramsay and Guillermo del Toro, reviewed.
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‘There’s No One Entry’: How the MoPOP’s Newest Exhibit is Exploring Hip-Hop History
For 425: The launch of the Museum of Pop Culture’s ‘Beats + Rhymes: A Collective Narrative of Hip-Hop’ exhibition coincides with the start of Hip-Hop History Month.
JUNE 2026
The Theme is ‘Pride’
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‘Desperate Living’ Feels Like the End of an Era
John Waters’ last movie before making his foray into the mainstream is among his most underrated.
May 25, 2026
May 13. 2026
March 27, 2026
Superheroines
On Julia Loktev’s towering, terrifying ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
March 30, 2026
Everything Everywhere
William Greaves’ ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One’ is almost 60 years old and still feels ahead of the curve.
March 11, 2026
Next Big Things
Gregory La Cava’s ‘Stage Door’ is often at once hysterically funny and brutally pragmatic about the personal toll a career in entertainment can take.
March 4, 2026
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